Logging and benchmarks
And the standard repertoire of a tuner naturally includes loggers like HWinfo and GPU-Z as well as benchmarks like 3DMark Fire Strike, Furmark and, if you like it, Unigine’s Superposition or, if you like it cheesy, the old Heaven. And especially for testing the VRAM, I also like to use MrH’s self-programmed benchmark. Once everything is set, I always like to test briefly with Furmark next to open HWinfo to see if clocks and voltage are transferred under load. This is convenient because Furmark runs in the window and starts immediately.
And now my test system. I started with a B550 motherboard before Christmas and I was more than satisfied with it, but since the computer already has two M2 memories in it, the second PCIe slot with the B550 chipset cannot be used like that. This in turn made it necessary to remove my main graphics card, a Radeon 6800 XT feared by many ;-). Since this is hanging in a double AIO loop, I had to open the loop every time and lost two drops of coolant.
Once wouldn’t be a once, but if I rip the loop open twice a week in the evening, the bubble gets bigger and bigger. Long story short, an X570 board was needed. And since I’ve been curious about the Dark Hero’s Dynamic OC Switcher for a long time, I came across a used one, minimally damaged, on the net then. My secret hope with the powerful system is of course that the rest of the system, apart from the old graphics card (to the test), helps rather than slows down.
Sooner or later, the move will come, which will make up for the old thermal pads or other small sloppiness: I put my PC naked on the balcony in winter (‘balcony mod’) – gladly at 0°C outside temperature, let all fans run at 100% and watch this activity comfortably behind the (almost closed) balcony door. Of course, the additional cooling helps quite a bit because the chips can consume and also release more power for longer due to lower temperatures.
For me, this is the cost effective alternative to water cooling on these old cards or quite wild thing with liquid nitrogen or similar. But this fun also only goes from about November to February. However, this strong cooling is also urgently needed when the GPU voltage is increased from the typical 0.9 to 1.0 volts to 1.2+ volts. High voltage leads to high thermal power and this energy has to be dissipated from the chip quickly, so I don’t worry about the chips when I’m using the PC on the balcony.
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